The city doesn’t just need more available housing, it needs truly affordable housing (“The Living Is Squeezy,” July 10).

Even a sub-$2,000-per-month apartment is not affordable to many, especially young people just starting out. Once again, Mayor Bloomberg reveals that he is clueless about the struggles of regular working New Yorkers.

It’s hard to believe that we kept him in office to provide such bad ideas.

Pietro Allar

Manhattan

Bloomberg’s plan to create down-sized living space is a throwback to 19th-century tenements. What immigrants and college graduates share is that both groups look to cram a dream of a fuller life into a space as small as a prison cell.

It is likely harder to land a job now than it was in the 19th century, and medical benefits are just as uncertain.

Day-to-day life in Manhattan for some is an experience where centuries overlap. Unfortunately, consoling yourself with a $6 draft is not as pleasing as a 10-cent mug.R. Hackinson

Ozone Park

Why not make the apartments 400 square feet and allow the residents a little dignity and perhaps some closet space?

To take a line from Mark Twain, those apartments aren’t big enough to swing a cat in, at least with entire security to the cat.

Wendy Penner

Great Neck

Bloomberg expects to lure people into Manhattan with ‘micro’ apartments.

It’s hard to even comprehend that we have any sort of population shortage here that would justify this. Wasn’t Bloomberg’s last scheme meant to avoid congestion?

The Japanese made little bullet-shaped coffins to sleep in years ago. How did that work out?